Bioshock is set in an undersea city that was intended to be a utopia free of the taint of religion or communism or New Deal altruism. The creator of the city is named Andrew Ryan, which is almost an anagram of the name Ayn Rand, and much of the rhetoric that Ryan spouts matches the radical individualist ideology that Rand propounds in her books. People who dig Rand's world view are miffed that the game presents a Randian utopia that's degenerated into nightmarish chaos. Ken Levine, the lead designer on the game, meets his critics halfway.